A pretty winter day with parents in Yuxi

Sunshine, blue sky, trees, reed grass, super clean air

Urbanization

抬头看看高鼓楼，帽子掉的沟沟手。

初一去烧香，十五才下楼。

My air journey in 2011

January:

Moscow-Kiev-Athens-Kiev-Moscow, Aerosvit
Moscow-Beijing-Kunming, Hainan Airlines


February:

Kunming-Beijing-Moscow, HainanAirlines


March:

Moscow-Prague-Paris, Czech Airlines
Paris-Budapest, Easyjet
Budapest-Berlin, Easyjet
Berlin-Prague-Moscow, Czech Airlines
Moscow-New York, Transaero
New York-Chicago, Jetblue


April:

Chicago-Boston, Jetblue
Boston-Washington D.C., Jetblue
New York-Moscow, Transaero
Moscow-Rome-Florence, Alitalia
Risa-Ibiza, Ryan Air
Ibiza-Barcelona, Ryan Air
Barcelona-Rome-Moscow, Alitalia
Moscow-Urumqi-Kunming, China Southern


May:

Lijiang-Xishuangbanna, Capital Airlines
Xishuangbanna-Kunming, Xiangpeng Airlines


June:

Kunming-Beijing-Kunming, Air China


July:

Kunming-Beijing-Kunming, Air China


August:

Kunming-Shanghai-Kunming, Spring Airlines


September:

Kunming-Hong Kong-Moscow, Hong Kong Airlines


Octerber:

Moscow-Hong Kong-Kunming, Hong Kong Airlines
Kunming-Beijing-Moscow, Air China


November:

Moscow-Beijing-Kunming, Airchina
Kunming-Shanghai, Air China
Shanghai-Moscow, Aeroflot
Moscow-Beijing, Aeroflot
Beijing-Bangkok, Thai Airways


December:

Bangkok-Kunming, Thai Airways

Bangkok memory

Phaya Thai area

Along the railway

Ladies and Gentleman in Wat Pho

Budda, Guan Yun Chang and Lotus.

Chan

Khaosan street food

Pieces of Ayutthaya

Wat Chai Wattanaram

Wat Phutthaisawan

Wat Ratburana

Nerusuan Road

Grandparents' home (Hotel)

Oleg's host in Beijing

The great view of CBD and the east 3-rd ring road.

day

night

MAKS2009

Steam maker

Photo was made by me, august 2011 in Shanghai.

The Shanghai Financial Center is making the cloud.

Summer dreams

I know not by what power I'm made bold,
But still you flout my insufficiencies,
The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace.

My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,
My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody,
My tongue your tongue, were the world mine?
And I will sing that they shall hear that I am not afraid.

together in Moscow

3-ya Mytishinskaya

Pisan enthusiasm

Everyone intends (or pretends to) straighten the leaning tower in Pisa, Italy.

Have a look!

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photo by Hong Yu

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Memory

Photo of my family at my 4-year-old birthday.

D.C.

Generally, I like DC much more, than NYC. NYC is too crowded, too dirty and too narrow.

Chicago is a city avaliable just for summer.

Photo by Hong Yu, DC USA 2011

Meditation

Aquincum today,with modern trains passing by in every 20 minutes.
Photo by HongYu

It was believed that Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote part of his philosophy in Aquincum (Budapest today).

Limestone portrait of Emperor Marcus Aurelius that was found in Pest.
Photo by HongYu

Some quotations of this great work are listed below. Should take note of that, the Emperor which mother tongue was Latin,wrote all of this in Greek:

- "Do not suppose that you are hurt, and your complaint will cease."

- "Natrue works up the matter of the universe like wax: Now it is a horse, soon you will find it melted down and run into the figure of a tree, then a man, then something else. Only for a brief time is it fixed in any soecies."

- "Soon you will be ashes and bones. A mere name at most - and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, trivial."

- "Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he was overtaken by death. And consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and futrue, the feebleness of all matter."

I do really appreciate, that he wrote such beatiful things.

Continued caprice, from ancient Buda with Greek style, about love

Photo by HongYu at Aquincum

It is an accessory for nekelace that was made at about 3rd century AD. A typical roman year.

This glass paste cameo was found in Budapest. The greek inscription on the accessory as:

"I do not care what people say, love me, and it will do you good."


I do really want this.

Magyar

Paganism and Christian
photo by HongYu

Szechenyi lanchid
photo by HongYu

For Royal family: It is my city, (I'd use force if...)
photo by HongYu

Hight makes Power
photo by HongYu

Generally, Budapest is one of the most beatiful cities that I'd ever seen.

Other cities of this size (or smaller) with such exiting views can be: Bergamo, Tallin.

These cities are all like this: the most precious part is sitting on the top of a highland that can easily overlook the whole city.

Modern urban life

Do you really like it?

Photo by HongYu at La Defense, Paris, France

You - wonder

Photo by Hong Yu at Ogorodny proezd, Moscow.

Another paradise for another god

It really, like in a paradise, when you look up at the Temple of Poseidon in the Cape sounion, standing at the edge of the bluff, waves crashing below.

Indulge the sentiment like in George Gordon Byron's The Isles of Greece:

Place me on Sounium's marbled steep,
Where nothing, save the waves and I,
May hear our mutual murmurs sweep...

Wine, Razvrat or Bacchus

Dionysus, with sexy legs on Parthenon, Athina.

And by the way, the The temple of Bacchus (Roman name of Dionysus) in Baalbek is the most preserved one I 've ever seen.